American Science Fiction Television and Space. Productions and (Re)configurations (1987-2021) 2023rd Edition Joel Hawkes

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3031105273
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3031105272
• Author(s): Joel Hawkes, Alexander Christie, Tom Nienhuis

This collection reads the science fiction genre and television medium as examples of heterotopia (and television as science fiction technology), in which forms, processes, and productions of space and time collide – a multiplicity of spaces produced and (re)configured. The book looks to be a heterotopic production, with different chapters and “spaces” (of genre, production, mediums, technologies, homes, bodies, etc), reflecting, refracting, and colliding to offer insight into spatial relationships and the implications of these spaces for a society that increasingly inhabits the world through the space of the screen. A focus on American science fiction offers further spatial focus for this study – a question of geographical and cultural borders and influence not only in terms of American science fiction but American television and streaming services. The (contested) hegemonic nature of American science fiction television will be discussed alongside a nation that has significantly been understood, even produced, through the television screen. Essays will examine the various (re)configurations, or productions, of space as they collapse into the science fiction heterotopia of television since 1987, the year Star Trek: Next Generation began airing.

Table contents:

Part I
1. Occupied Space: The Contested Habitation of Terok Nor/Deep Space Nine
2. Welwala at the Borders: Language, Space, and Power in The Expanse
3. “You’ve Seen One Post-Apocalyptic City, You’ve Seen Them All”: The Scales and Failures of the Right to the City and the Science Fiction Production of Space in Love, Death, & Robots
4. “Heaven is a Place on Earth”?: Configuring the Horizon of Queer Utopia in Black Mirror’s “San Junipero”
5. SVOD: A Place for (Outer) Space?
Part II
6. The Wars of Ronald D. Moore: Terrorism, Insurgency, and News Media in Deep Space Nine and Battlestar Galactica
7. “To Ensure the Safety of the Republic, We Must Deregulate the Banks”: A Social Democratic Reading of Star Wars: The Clone Wars
8. Enclosing, Opening, and Redefining Modern Space in The Expanse
Part III
9. The Year Everything Changed: Babylon 2020
10. Disembodied Spaces and Cyborg Utopias in Westworld
11. Memos from the Author: Adaptation of Flashforward for Television
Part IV
12. Pushing Through Networks and Media Spaces in Stranger Things
13. The Boys Keep Swinging: Celebrity Bodies in and Between Space

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